LyX 2.4.0dev Testing Release

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 10/25/20 1:57 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 06:53:34PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote:
>> Am Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:48:15 -0400
>> schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org>:
>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 04:55:52PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote:
>>>> Am Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:42:26 -0400
>>>> schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>:
>>>>    
>>>>>> Committed at 2dbf3515.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there more?
>>>>> Should I try rebuilding?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a cmake way to generate the tarballs? I use 'make dist' from
>>>>> autotools.
>>>>>
>>>>> Speaking of which, 'make lyxdist' used to work but doesn't now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Riki
>>>> If you do
>>>>   $ make help
>>>> in the build dir, you should get all possible targets.
>>>> Among them
>>>>   $ make package_source
>>>> should create LyX-2.4.tar.gz and LyX-2.4.tar.xz
>>> Not sure if necessary, but in "cmake" call, you might need to set
>>>
>>>    -DLYX_CPACK=ON -DCPACK_SOURCE_TGZ:BOOL=ON
>>>
>>> Note that you can also create a .rpm. Not sure what your setup is, but
>>> Kornel and I find it useful to use .debs (easy to install and remove).
>>> To have "make package" create a .rpm, in "cmake" call do the following:
>>>
>>>    -DLYX_CPACK=ON -DCPACK_BINARY_RPM:BOOL=ON
>>>
>>> Scott
>> Yes, and the target is 'package', e.g.
>>    $ make package
> Good point. To be clear (to Riki), "make package" will make CPack's
> binary packages, which in the above example is the RPM. But for the
> source tar.gz file, you still do "make package_source" as Kornel
> mentioned earlier.

OK, thanks. I'll try this at some point.

For my own use, I tend just to 'make install' to /usr/local/ and 
over-write it as necessary. Is there reason to do it otherwise?

Riki